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Communicating With Plants
By Bob Makransky
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Plants’ experience of being in the world is very different
from the experience of us animals. Because plants cannot move about,
they exist in a state of profound acceptance and peace within themselves.
Emotions such as fear, hate, jealousy, possessiveness, etc. are
wholly unknown to plants and would serve no useful purpose. On the
other hand, plants are capable of experiencing a wide range of higher
emotions the like of which we animals could scarcely conceive.
At the same time, there are feelings which plants share with us
animals, such as love, pain, joy, thirst, etc. It is the feelings
we share with plants which provide the basis of our ability to communicate
with them.
Feeling with plants is not so different from feeling with people.
For example, when we are about to have sex with someone who really
turns us on, we feel a palpable surge of sexual energy connecting
us to that person. Similarly, when we walk into a room to face someone
who is madder than hell at us, we feel connected to that person
by a palpable wave of anger and fear. When a baby smiles at us,
we feel a rush of joy that has us automatically smile back. However,
most of our interactions with other people do not have this feeling
of connectedness and emotional immediacy. Most of the time we don’t
even look the people we are addressing in the eye, let alone feel
with them. Because of our social training, we tend to regard sharing
feelings with other people as threatening. We are taught to close
up and defend ourselves, and to keep our interactions as sterile
and devoid of feeling as possible.
In order to communicate with plants (or people), you have to be
able to regard them as your equals. If you are afraid (ashamed)
to talk with homeless people, beggars, crazy people, etc. then you’ll
also find it difficult to talk with plants. However, it’s
actually easier to communicate with plants than it is to communicate
with people because plants don’t have defenses and self-importance
agendas in place which engage our own defenses and self-importance
agendas. To feel with plants (or people) doesn’t mean to gush
all over them; all it means is to recognize them as beings whose
feelings are as important to them as your feelings are to you.
When first learning to communicate with plants, it helps to be
in contact with the same individual plants on a daily basis. Ideally
you should go out, preferably alone, to the same tree or meadow
for at least a few minutes every day. If you can’t do this,
cultivating garden or house plants will work just as well, although
it’s easiest to communicate with large trees. This is because
from a feeling (light fiber) point of view, humans and trees are
very much alike – the light fiber (auric glow) configurations
of both humans and trees are quite similar, whereas that of insects,
for example, is very different from either. It is easier for humans
and trees to communicate with each other than it is for either to
communicate with insects.
Now even the least psychic person, going up to a large tree, should
be able to pick up something of the personality (mood) of that tree.
How does the tree make you feel – happy, sad, loving, jolly,
heavy? Can you pick up its sex: sense a male or female presence
– or its age: young and vigorous or old and mellow?
This isn’t all that hard to do – you can call upon
your senses to buttress your feelings, as in the exercise of seeing
pictures in the clouds, except that you do it by feeling rather
than thinking – by relaxing into the process rather than controlling
it. It’s exactly what a rationalist would term “anthropomorphism.”
For example, spiky trees (like palmettos and Joshua trees) have
a sassy, masculine energy. Cedar trees tend to be clowns or wise
guys. Banana trees are joyous and loving. Weeping trees really do
have a doleful air about them. Tall, erect trees have proud and
regal personalities. Trees that seem to be reaching longingly for
the heavens are reaching longingly for the heavens.
A good time to learn to connect emotionally with trees is when
they’re dying. The next time you see a tree being felled,
pause and quiet down your thoughts and watch it attentively. You
should easily be able to feel the tree’s agony just before
it falls, since trees (and all beings) are filled with power at
the moment of their deaths and profoundly affect the beings around
them. Loggers triumphantly yell “Timber!” when a tree
falls to cover their sense of shame and disconnectedness –
to block communication with the tree at the moment of its death.
Another good time to pick up on plants’ feelings is when
they are in motion. Plants are happiest when they are moving –
blown by the wind and the rain. Wave back to them when they wave
at you (it’s only polite). Watch how they dance in the breeze.
See how the trees which overhang roads and walkways cast down blessings
on all who pass beneath them. See how the young growing tips are
more alert, vigorous, and naively impetuous than the older and mellower
lower leaves. Be aware of the awareness of plants: when you walk
through a wood or meadow, feel as though you were walking through
a crowd of people, all of whom are watching you.
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(excerpted from Bob Makransky’s
book Magical Living)
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